Chapter 46: Weapons
There are more than 600 strong men, and only eighty-four people are left in the end, not even a hundred, which is still a big gap from the target of 300 given by Mr. Cao, but Wang Hou does not plan to recruit more.
Rather lack than excess!
Take the first kid who slipped away, tens of millions of people rushed forward on the battlefield, his heart shrank backwards, and there was a vacancy in the formation immediately, and the defeat may come from this place, no wonder Qi Jiguang in later generations has four don'ts in selecting soldiers, and the first one who is slippery is not good.
In the howling of those strong men beating their chests at the door, Wang Hou also immediately let them know what regret is, and his name was entered into the military register, for the first time, every family has a horse, a stone of flour, and white flour! As a settlement fee, if the two brothers are in the army together, they will have two stones of flour and two horses, a total of more than 50 households who do not live in the fire kang room will be arranged into the fire kang room for the first time, and the elderly people in the family will be arranged into the production team assigned to the task, and they will also find a carpenter to enter the ranking of each person's ancestors, and then build a piece and send it to the ancestral hall on the Wang Hou Mansion in the city, which is recognized as the Wang family to enjoy the incense together.
On this day alone, the homeless tenants who were as poor as the big guys were divided into classes, and others were still eating black-flour steamed buns for dinner, while these selected military dependents ate white-flour steamed buns.
However, Wang Hou's soldier is not easy to be, the first night has just been settled, early the next morning, others are still up, was planned to live in one place, these eighty-four recruits with nine tigers and leopards rode together to be pulled up, before eating, against the cold wind to give him a morning run of five kilometers!
After the morning run, the tired people stuck out their tongues, but the toss had just begun, and the unsuccessful strong man who returned to life went to work in the mine with a thick black-flour steamed bun in his mouth, and the pro-soldier who ate the steamed bun in the broth was enclosed in the playground of the small military camp again, and he didn't have to do anything, just standing!
Standing, listening is very simple, but the human monkey evolved, the nature is to be active, standing motionless like a sculpture, listening to the order when these soldiers are still relaxed, but less than three minutes, someone can't stand it, reached out and scratched the ear.
But this time it was not gentle to treat them, the tiger and leopard rider in charge of their team directly kicked over, and the unlucky soldier who kicked it fluttered and lay on the ground, so frightened that the surrounding tribes were all clever, but before the tiger and leopard rider reached out and threw the whip to beat, one hand grabbed his wrist violently.
Turning his head angrily, Wang Congge immediately hugged his fist helplessly and stunned: "Family master!" ”
"The head of the family, Ci is not in charge of the soldiers! At the beginning, we also survived in the army, the military order is like a mountain, since the head of the family has ordered two hours to stand for work, this person disobeys the order and deserves to be punished! Otherwise, where will the military power be in the future? ”
The tiger and leopard rode an ordinary soldier to get the local troops are all hundred generals, it seems really right, Wang Congge's words are reasonable and well-founded, so he didn't flinch, but Wang Hou, who listened to it, shook his head with a smile.
"Punishment must be punished, but another useful way!"
"Useful?"
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"Ahhhh!!h Ahh!!hhhhh ”
The terrible screams continued to sound in front of more than eighty recruits, not to mention, this punishment was really effective, listening to the screams like killing pigs, and then looking at the distorted face of the typical unlucky guy who was caught, the rest of the recruits were all terrified and sweating.
As for whether it is useful or not! It's really useful, too! If there is another soldier here, he will definitely be sweaty and have some sad memories in his heart, because this trick is said to be a torture that most recruits in later generations have to experience, nicknamed the tendon and ligament of killing pigs.
Three family members, one pressed him behind his back, pressed his thighs, and the other pulled his hands in front, and kicked his whole legs close to a line on his knees, and the pain caused by the opening of the tendons made the sweat on the recruit's cold head come out like a stream, and he screamed intermittently.
Walking beside the pro-soldier with his hands behind his back, except for the lack of light in his head, Wang Hou kept talking in the demeanor of the chairman.
"Standing in a military posture is to temper your will, you are the personal soldiers of this master, and you are elite soldiers who must be stronger than ordinary soldiers, maybe it won't be long before you have to go to the battlefield with this master! Facing a vicious enemy, thousands of troops! If you don't even have the will to stand still, how can you gain a foothold on a battlefield as cruel as a mountain of swords and a sea of blood? ”
"Dozens of them are aggregated together to form a whole, a array! But if one of them breaks down, retreats timidly, or advances lightly, the formation will be dispersed! The big guys have to die! And if I die, my fiefdom will be taken back, and your little old people will have to starve and freeze like when they stayed in the county, and even become someone else's meal! ”
The entire recruit camp was silent, and after turning around and pointing for more than ten minutes, he finally stood up, his hips couldn't be closed, and the opposite of the big girl twisted and pinched back to the formation, Wang Hou roared again.
"If anyone violates the military rules, they will all be punished! Keep up the right thing! ”
Stretching tendons occupies a very important part in the fighting of later armies, because if you have not stretched tendons, you can only kick the enemy's waist, and after stretching your muscles, you can reach the enemy's face! However, Wang Hou is not worried that these newcomers will not violate it again, because it takes too many deep memories to transition from a group of loose farmers to soldiers with military orders! Sure enough, less than a few minutes after the unlucky guy who had just opened his legs returned to the military formation, Wang Congge, who was patrolling the military formation, had once again carried a new Ding's neck collar and pulled him out of the formation, and a family member pressed him behind, this time he sat on the ground in person, and his legs stretched out the legs of the new Ding, and again, the screams like killing pigs sounded in front of the military formation.
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For several days in a row, except for military orders to go in and out to transfer food when necessary, or to personally send the high-quality swords and armor to the mansion of the general under General Cao, Wang Houshi has been soaking in the courtyard of his mountain mine, supervising the training.
There's also a noticeable change, these guys are starting to become less afraid of stretching their muscles!
In the snow, more than a dozen snowmen were set up there, Wang Congge suddenly shouted, more than a dozen recruits put their fists in a fighting posture, stepped forward and kicked suddenly, in the sound of clanging, the snowman's head was shattered in response, and the snowman's head was stacked again, and then they retreated to the next column of recruits who flew up again.
On the other end, twenty recruits lined up, and another tiger and leopard cavalry soldier shouted, and the recruit on the left grabbed the opponent's shoulders violently, and threw the opponent into the snow with a bang.
At the third end, there were seven or eight newcomers who made the wrong move and sat on the snow, and several other family members pressed their shoulders and helped them press their legs, but compared to the heart-rending screams on the first day, they had been punished, and they didn't know how much of this was a little numb, although they were still secretly gritting their teeth and sweating, but when they did this action again, they had already begun to be at ease! The tendons were no longer deterrent, so that Wang Hou had to start another punishment, next to these punished newcomers, a guy who was even addicted to tendons was sadly hunched over his thighs and squatted on his horse, and he also carried a big iron zhang weighing more than ten catties on his back.
In the military training, these newcomers are practicing the blood boiling, on the one hand, the food keeps up, three meals in the morning, lunch and evening, the steamed bun pickles are unlimited, it is said that it is one meat for two days, but now in addition to breakfast, the last two meals have meat, although it is not as nutritious and balanced as in later generations, but the effect is still obvious, the amount of exercise increases the food, and the muscles of the young men who were originally thin are still unrestrained, and they have the energy to toss when they are full.
On the other hand, for them, even if it hurts to fall on the ground, it is more comfortable than standing motionless in a static military posture, or boring left and right columns.
Although there are few people, watching this army of its own begin to take shape little by little, although the cost of raising this army of less than 100 people is like running water, food, salary, and whatever, the cost of raising a soldier is enough to feed the previous eight strong men, but Wang Hou's mood is still a little happy, this is his capital to save his life in the troubled times.
Even Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu who swept thousands of armies, relied on a good horse, a good halberd and an invulnerable heavy armor to be able to walk on the ground in the 100,000 Qin army Han soldiers, and Sun Monkey also had to go down to the East China Sea to find the old dragon king to get the wishful golden hoop stick! This army is training, and the building of that armament is also the most important thing, and it is constantly being prepared.
However, Wang Hou really doesn't have the financial resources to equip every soldier with a hundred refining swords and cold-forged armor, these high-tech are too labor-intensive and material-intensive, and they are not practical and unnecessary.
In his plan, his personal guards are similar to the equipment of Yuan Shao's halberders, and the main battle weapon is still a halberd, after all, the halberd is the main weapon in the north in this era, which can be stabbed and hooked, and can also pull the cavalry off the horse, whether it is against the cavalry or the infantry, the halberd soldiers who form a formation are extremely lethal.
The secondary weapon is each person with a ring head knife with the characteristics of the late Han Dynasty, in order to increase the melee combat ability and the lethality of the light infantry infantry, these weapons Wang Hou adopts the mass production of the steel method, the halberd with two pieces of cast iron wrapped in the middle of the steel blade, in order to enhance the strength of the whole weapon, and the ring head knife is wrought iron carburizing intermediate clad steel, the strength of the blade is enhanced, and the flexibility of the long blade weapon is increased. The effort to build has also been cut in half.
As for the armor, it is another laziness and crossing, he now has a water hammer, directly heat treated a large piece of steel and smashed it out of the arc to make a plate armor cuirass, the back with a large piece of armor hanging in the cotton armor, so that people can not find the gap in the armor, after this treatment, the defense is not necessarily much less than the armor or scale armor, and the effort to build is more than two-thirds less than the collar scale armor or the armor.
And Wang Hou also made a crossing here, in addition to these weapons and armor, he also brought a special weapon armor inherited from the Celts to the British.
Buckler!
The whole shield is only the size of a wall clock in later generations, the weight of wood and steel is only two catties, and it does not add much weight to the arm, but it can be set up head-on in the face of bows and arrows, but it can often save one's life.
But there is still a big weak link in the equipment configuration of the entire Wang Hou tribe, the lack of long-range weapons!
Whether it was Liyi's first arrival in the camp boundary bridge to break the white horse righteousness, or Gao Shun's trapping camp to suppress Hao Meng's rebellion, the famous rhubarb crossbow in the late Han Dynasty played a vital role, but alas, these heavy things are what Wang Hou can't afford now, the cost is extremely high, and he doesn't dare to play! I'm afraid that Cao Cao will be jealous of him!
Anyway, the role of the pro-soldier division is to protect themselves at critical moments, and there is no need to break the formation on the front line, and the number of people is too small, this long-range weapon, it doesn't matter if you give up first!
Looking at the piles of weapons and armor piled up in the blacksmith shop, waiting for the equipment department, Wang Hou was helpless to pinch his beard, but it was really a coincidence, just when Wang Hou gritted his teeth and made a choice, he was unexpectedly playing the role of law enforcement gendarme, and rushed into the blacksmith shop with great interest.
"Master, there is an old way at the bottom of the mountain, saying that it is your old friend, who came to visit the master!"
"Me? Old friends? Road? ”
Repeating these three words, pointing to his nose, Wang Hou is a mist of melon seeds